What I've been doing

I always find it interesting when I sit down at a study desk to guess what the previous occupant is cramming for / researching, based on titles of the books stacked there.  As I put together my bibliography for the year's reading, it seems like a good way to show you what I've been doing all this time.  Keep in mind that many of these are articles or book chapters, not whole books, and a large chunk of them relate to a project I'm no longer doing.  Still, I'm pretty impressed with myself.

Anglo-Saxonism (aka what I'm not doing anymore)

‘J.M. Kemble and Sir Frederic Madden: “Conceit and Too Much Germanism”?’,

Old English Scholarship in England from 1566-1800

‘The Elstobs and the End of the Saxon Revival’

Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity

Anglo-Saxon Scholarship: The First Three Centuries

‘Received Wisdom: The Reception History of Alfred’s Preface to the Pastoral Care’

‘The Anglo-Saxon Grammars of George Hickes and Elizabeth Elstob’

‘Antiquary to Academic: The Progress of Anglo-Saxon Scholarship’

‘The Elstobs, Scholars of Old English and Anglican Apologists’

‘The Rediscovery of Old English Poetry in the English Literary Tradition’

‘Crushing the Convent and the Dread Bastille: The Anglo-Saxons, Revolution and Gender in Women’s Plays of the 1790s’

Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century

‘Anglo-Saxon Attitudes?: Alfred the Great and the Romantic National Epic’

‘Historical Novels to Teach Anglo-Saxonism’

‘The Anglo-Saxons: Fact and Fiction’

Reversing the Conquest: History and Myth in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Medievalism

Reinventing King Arthur : The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture

A Dream of Order; the Medieval Ideal in Nineteenth-Century English Literature

Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal

Culture and language politics

Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture : Discourse and Ideology

Philology

The Study of Language in England, 1780-1860

‘The Uses of Philology in Victorian England’

The Rise of English Studies; an Account of the Study of the English Language and Literature from Its Origins to the Making of the Oxford English School

The Tenth Muse: Victorian Philology and the Genesis of the Poetic Language of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Hardy’s Literary Language and Victorian Philology

‘Nationalism and the Reception of Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Grammatik by English-Speaking Audiences’

Tennyson and His Circle

The Cambridge Apostles: The Early Years

The Cambridge Apostles: A History of Cambridge University’s Élite Intellectual Secret Society

Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855)

John Mitchell Kemble and Jakob Grimm; a Correspondence 1832-1852

‘Middlemarch and Julius Charles Hare’

The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life

Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart

Theological Essays (by F.D. Maurice)

Notes on the Parables of Our Lord (by R.C. Trench)

Tennyson’s Poetry

‘Tennyson’s “The Princess”: A Definition of Love’

‘The Argument of “The Ancient Sage”: Tennyson and the Christian Intellectual Tradition’

Tennyson’s Language

‘Soul and Spirit in “In Memoriam”’

‘The Anti-Feminist Ideology of Tennyson’s “The Princess”’

The Spirit of God in the Old Testament.

Language and Structure in Tennyson’s Poetry

‘“Flowering in a Lonely Word”: Tennyson and the Victorian Study of Language’

Tennyson and the Reviewers; a Study of His Literary Reputation and of the Influence of the Critics Upon His Poetry, 1827-1851

The Language of Tennyson’s In Memoriam

‘“Knowledge of Their Own Supremacy”: “Œnone” and the Standardization of Tennyson’s Diction’

‘Tennyson and the Nineteenth-Century Language Debate’

‘Tennyson and Persian Poetry’